Elias Tillandz was a Swedish-born doctor and botanist who worked in Finland. He was the professor of medicine at the Academy of Turku. He wrote the country's first botanical work, the Catalogus Plantarum, which was first published in 1673. Wikipedia
Born: 1640, Rogberga socken, Sweden
Died: 1693 (age 53 years), Turku, Finland
Education: Universiteit Leiden (1668–1670), Uppsala University (1663–1668), and Royal Academy of Turku (1659–1662)